Re: BASH Variable for Selection or Clipboard

emerge xclip
echo 'xclip -o | festival --tts' > ~/.bin/sayit
chmod o+x .bin/sayit

.fluxbox/keys
Control Mod1 p :Exec ~root/.bin/sayit (yes, ima root abuser)

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

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From ---------------)> "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
Date ---------------)> Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:38:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject ------------)> Re: BASH Variable for Selection or Clipboard

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Jared Anderson wrote:

> I've grown obsessively fond of festival and my local/bin can prove it.
> My clock speaks to me, my mail speaks to me, my laptop lid speaks to me,
> my battery speaks to me; I'm out of control. Now, I want to be able to
> highlight some text and map a key sequence that pipes the selected text
> through /usr/bin/festival --tts.
>
> I was curious if there is an easy way to reference the current
> selection, such as a bash variable. Is this an object I can reference?
> Seems like selections are remembered forever when I accidently
> middle-click...

I don't know if it exists, but maybe bash could be built with libgpm
support that sets a variable based on the gpm status. That would be used
if not using X.

But you mention mapping a key sequence, so you are probably using X.

Have a look at the xclip tool.
http://people.debian.org/~kims/xclip/

You could use xclip to get the X selection to pipe into festival.

Alternatively, you could write your own X tool for this. If you need some
C code for some ideas, let me know.


Jeremy C. Reed

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